Why is Eastern Orthodoxy growing — among evangelicals, among Busters, among nonethnics? The English composer John Tavener has become a convert to the Orthodox church — not just because it is an "Eastern" version of Christianity, though that has something to do with it, but because in the Orthodox church one doesn't come to church to understand God, but to encounter God and be united with God. The Eucharist itself invites everyone present to become a "participant."
The Eastern church has understood better than the Western that the fastest way to reach the emotions is through smell. Postmoderns want a God they can feel, taste, touch, hear, and smell — a full sensory immersion in the divine.
— Leonard Sweet, SoulTsunami